a euphemism for P's poorest prose: warm excrement flowing from a pathetic puppet's mouth

[Paul Mackin]

On 11/4/2012 9:22 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:
>   alice wellintown
>> endorsed the president, tells us that we may need study Vibe's speech
>> a bit more to see HOW the Pyncher means.
> that, I agree with...
>
>> The headlines of the Left
>> won't help us.
>> Sweatshop & Pauper Labor falacies.
> hmm, how are sweatshop & pauper labor fallacies?
>
> defrauding a laborer of his or her hire is a sin crying to Heaven for
> vengeance. ----- choosing - as Vibe explicitly does here, and as so
> many US manufacturers have implicitly done when closing facilities
> that made a profit while paying a living wage, adhering to safety and
> dignity guidelines agreed-upon, contributing taxes and reducing
> pollution, in favor of opening facilities where they could beat,
> mistreat, bribe, underpay and pollute - is a bad choice and the
> specifics of why are laid bare in Vibe's speech.  He reveals himself
> to be a monster.  (exterminate the brute)

At this point in the book Pynchon doesn't need to fill us in with more 
detail on Vibe's character.

Pynchon here is examining confession, self-revelation, the need for 
forgiveness--further cementing this idea into place in the paragraphs 
that follow--where an apparition of Death appears in the rail car 
vestibule.

But it's pointedly unreal. If it's Dostoevsky, it's comic Dostoevsky.

Since Pynchon is a master, the picture is poignant and heart rending 
too.  We grieve for all.  We are left in a state of suspension.

In the end, it might be called high-concept art.  See David's post on 
Rauschenberg vis a vis Mark's comment.

P


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